Louis Held, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Louis Held

German photographer

Date of Birth: 01-Dec-1851

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 17-Apr-1927

Profession: photographer, photojournalist, journalist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Carl Heinrich Louis Held (1 December 1851 – 17 April 1927) was a German photographer and a pioneer of photojournalism. Held was raised by relatives after the death of his parents in 1860.
He first apprenticed in a company producing silk tissues before beginning a second apprenticeship as a photographer. He opened his first studio in Liegnitz in 1876, moved three years later to Berlin, and again three years later to Weimar.
There, he became a protégé of Franz Liszt and was appointed court photographer of Carl Alexander, grand duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, in 1888.
From 1890 on, he travelled throughout Germany, photographing for illustrated magazines. In 1912, he opened a cinema in Weimar.
In 1923, he experimented with color photography.



Description	German photographer, journalist and photojournalist
Date of birth/death	1 December 1851	17 April 1927
Location of birth/death	Berlin	Weimar
Work location	Weimar
Authority control	: Q110149 VIAF: 20609097 ISNI: 0000 0000 6656 9823 LCCN: n85175695 Open Library: OL1159472A GND: 124221785 WorldCat